Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-24
THE SITUATION IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, Jan. 23.-Y esterday's session @
the cabinet was directed to discussion o
the order of business at the opening of Par
| lament, procedure as it is termed in Englisl
parliamentary circles and not coercion fo
| Ireland being the uppermost topic. The
terms of the Queens speech were also dis
cussed at length; these will be finally ap
proved at a royal C uncil at Osborne OF
Wednesday. The same evening Lord Sails
| bury, premier, and Conservative leader OF
the upper house, and Mr.. w. Fl. Smith, his
| first lieutenant in the Commons, will enter
| tain their partisan friends at the customary
pro parliamentary banquets. Mr.. Gladstone,
who on his arrival in London will be the
guest of Lady Frederick Cavendish, will
entertain his friends of the opposition on
Tuesday and Lord Granville, the Liberal
leader in the Lords, will give his dinner
party on Wednesday. At all of these pom
derous entertainments the final touches will
be given by party leaders to their plans of
attack and defense in the coming struggle
The Queen has finally decided not
to open Parliament in person and the decis-
ion is said to have been taken in view of the
possible defeat of Lord Salisbury, her favor
tie minister, to whom she does not care to
lend the pomp of royalty in his present
strait. The latest reports in Conservative
circles are to the effect that the proposed
coercion bill has been so remodeled as to ap-
ply only to ireland and to deal only with
illegal combinations against the payment of
rent. The speech from the throne will con-
tain a reference to the need of such meas
ure, but as it cannot possibly be introduced
until after the Easter holidays it may again
suffer remodifcation. These reports of Tory
concessions are fairly indicative of the modifi-
cations to which Lord Salisburys plans are
being subjected under the influences of forci-
bly, expressed public opinion.
In the interim Lord Randolph Churchill's
attitude is puzzling the Conservatives. They
found that his first letter on national econ
omy had been interpreted that he was likely
to gravitate toward the Liberals. Then Lord
Randolph fastened to correct this impression
by his second letter. The public sentiment
as to his attitude is, however, but little at
fected by this letter. The St. James Gazette
has a very outspoken article protesting
against the persistent declarations of certain
classes of Conservatives that ChurchilPs re-
turn to the cabinet is necessary to the
existence of the Conservative party. The
writer argues that if Churchill returns Mr..
Goschen will have to go and the party will
lose one of its most promising acquisitions.
1t warns the Tories that they must be pre-
pared to see Churchill drift toward the rad
ical party eventually. There is now, it
that Churchill is bound for radicalism and
that nothing short of changing his whole
nature stop him. In this view many are
disposed to share the opinion of the St.James
Gazette that Goschen is under the circum-
stances pore valuable ally than the late
chancellor of the excheouer.
Mrs. Fawcett, the talented writer on polit-
ical economy, has placed Mr.. Gladstone in a
rather awkward position by challenging the
correctness of a statement lately made by
him. In a criticism upon Lord Tennyson' s
new poem ''Locksley Hall-Sixty Years
After, "Mr. Gladstone averred that the practice
on the part of the government of opening
private letters in transit has
been for some time abandoned. Mrs.
Fawcett writes home recalling the fact that
in 1881 when her husband was postmaster
general the government authorities opened
the letters of the Parnellites; that her hus-
band protested against such an invasion of pri-
vate rights and that he was plainly told by Mr..
Gladstone and Sir William Vernon Harcourt
to mind his own business and let them alone.
Mr.. Gladstone's friends are naturally indig-
nant at this contretemps and they take
rather paltry revenge by declaring that this
revelation of State secret which came to
Mrs. Fawcett's knowledge through her hns
bands blindness proves the wisdom of MIR.
Gladstone in excluding Fawcett from the late
cabinet on the ground that all State papers
must necessarily pass through his wife's
hands and be subject to the debatable capac-
ity of a woman for keeping secret.
Tired of Life at Twenty.
LEWISTON, Me-, Jan. 23.-Etts. wife of
Romeo Ducello, has disappeared leaving a
note saying that she was tired of life and
should end it. Her hat has been found on
the bank of the Kennebec. The wonan's
maiden name was Tibbetts and she was
American born. The woman was about
twenty years OF age.
THE WAR FEELING IN EUROPE.
Germany Likely to ASK Franco to Ex-
plain Her Military Movemants.
LONDON, Jan. 23.-The differences be-
tween General Boulanger, French war min
lister, and his colleagues in the cabinet in
crease daily. The moderate party attribute
Prince Bisnarek's belligerent attitude
wholly to Boulanger's presence in the war
Office and think that they could elbow
him out and put a less truculent person in the
department Bismarck might be induced to
postpone the aggressive intentions which he
is credited with. Taking the attitude of the
moderates as his text the fiery Henri Roche
fort in an srticle in L'Intransigeant
warns the party that if they should
attempt to dispense with General Boulanger
twenty thousand men would hasten to prom
enade the bouleYards and cry ''Down with
the traitorsr' and "Vive Boulanger" eff
the troops were called upon to dispense the
mob, says he, "they would be found to be
more in sympathy with Boulanger than
with his enemies. The opportunists angrily
demand of General Boulanger that he should
condemn this hateful Indictment to civ war.
Meantime the war minister is more popular
with the masses than ever and
continues to ignore the matter, devoting
himself wholly to preparing the army for
active usefulness, for no other construction
can be placed upon his actions. The budget
committee has voted his military credit as
he asked it and almost without discussion.
The Strassbourger Post says that not a
single workman is to found at Verdun. They
have all gone to Contains to erect wooden
barricks for five thousand French troops
The Post asserts that eight thousand troops
are to be collected between
st. Dieu and Nancy and that
the inhabitants of the district in
view of these military preparations believe
war to be inevitable.
The Daily News processes to know that
there is extreme danger of war and says the
government is much alarmed at hearing that
Germany is likely within few days to ask
France to explain her military movements on
the frontier.
POLICE AT ST STEPHENS.
Father DonnelIv Does Not Appear at
the Late Mass.
NEW York, Jan. 23.-Eighty policemen
in plain clothes were stationed inside of ST.
Stephens church this morning to preserve
order. Father Donnelly celebrated mass at
a. m. and did not appear at the later
masses. The altar boys, ushers and members
of the choir refused to serve. The collection
boxes had been spirited away. When col
lection was taken up nearly all the contribu-
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